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OREGON CITV COURIER, FRIDAY, JAN 3 1913
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OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en
tered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter.
OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS.
Subscription Price $1.50.
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
Thomas Tobin of Portland was arrested Friday last for being
drunk, and Thomas gave his ago as 92. Thomas is about old enough
to cut out this wild oat business, brace up and be a man.
Nature made this part of Oregon an apple country, and yet you
will go into the stores of this city and see some of about as scrub
by fruit as you will see anywhere. No reason for it in the world but
lack of attention. We should be supplying a large part of the courf-
try with the llnest apples on earth. Let us spray.
Governor West is going to ask the incoming legislature to make
the Portland "tin plate" law a state law, and force the owner of every
public building in the state to put his name on the door, so that the
public may know who is responsive mr me propenj. o ...
right proposition.
Giving the right of ballot to women continues to bring out pre
plexing situations. The latest one is a decision by Attorney General
Crawford that those making applications to the count ycourts for li
censes inu'st have I heir petitions signed by a majority of all the
voters in the precinct, and not as heretoiore by a majority of all the
men voters. This will no uouoi mane n u na namui w COi,u..0h
new saloons in the rural districts. -
o:u, ..,., UQn,i inn. f,f mil.! Kioraca butter was found by detec
lives in Chicago. This holding out of this great supply practically
furnished a corner on the market and allowed the schemers to pull
.i,v nnn mm of ihe mnnev of the consumers, It takes a lot or
rubbing in before the American people will come alive and protest,
v.... ...., o.... ,.,., ;u,r niiv,. these davs. and there is certainly going to
be a stop out to this cornering, or there is going to be some heavy
trouble in this country. '
When the Oregon City Courier man gets real excited
about any proposition, he drops into Welsh. For instance
this from last week's issue of that paper
The way to handle postollices the mfawyp rdakoflffq wfamfw
der tho civil service get a good man and keep him and
this should apply to ail postollices. Woodburn Independ
cnt. And an editor fresh from the plains of Kansas calls this Welsh.
-And I have my opinion of an editor that doesn't know Yiddish from
Welsh.
Last week at a convention of school teachers in Portland that
body took a step backward (or rather forward) in the recommenda
lion that the classics be eliminated from-high school subjects and
that practical studies be substiluded the studies that deal with ev
ery day life. '
What our schools need is more of the practlical and less of the
useless education. I know a man who is a graduate from Yale coU
lege who is a teamster working by the day, and I know another who
is tho head of one of Buffalo's biggest manufacturing industries who
never went to school after he was thirteen years old. The teamster
did not need the college education. The manufacturer needed a part
There is an article in this issue regarding the county court
ana bridges, it is not bublished with any view of "getting even
with any official. It is published along the lines of the policy of
this paper to publish any signed and substantiated article that is
of interest to tho people and the same space will be given to any
person who wishes to make reply to same. And by the way, is not
this article a pretty good argument for a change of our county
ccourt system for a change to more representation and closer tab
cn county matters 1
Almost every man in Oregon will admit that the one big want
of Oretcon is better roads, and it would seem with this general sen
timent that something along these lines could be done. And yet we
talk and vote and agitate and nothing comes of it all. The incoming
legislature has its opportunity. If the men will only get together
and frame un a good roads system for the common good, for the
trrenipsi. crnod of the state, the people will surely ratify it. But if
ihpv start it out with boulevards and trunk lines between the cities
the people will as surely turn it down. Instead of trunk lines first
that the rural roads will come after, this should be reversed. Get
the roads through trie country auu lurimng uisiricis anu me mam
lines will come.f. ,
IF U. 8. WHY NOT US?
( Contra Costan, Richmond, Cal.)
The Oregon City Courier digs up something new under the sun
on tho high cost of living, or rather the -low cost of living this
time, which is the same thing, that is interesting and suggests a
number'of questions one would like to ask. Speaking of a nephew
of the editor the Courier says:
Young Brown has been working for Uncle Sam out in
Wallowa county for the past six months, making maps of
that section of the state, and he says the average cost of
boarding a camp of six men for the first four monhs was
nine cents per day per man, the next two months seven
cents per day and the last two weeks four cents per day. Ho
says the camp had plenty of good wholesome food.'pota
toes, bacon, canned goods, etc. Of curse this did not in
'elude fresh meat, for they only had this when it was killed,
but it did include about all the average family had with this
exception.; It is evident that Uulcle Sam must get bargains
on food supplies and that he has a cook who is onto his job.
We have read that the cost of boarding the army of men on the
government works of the Panama canal was also less than half
what it costs the average person, and here is food for thought in
these facts. If it only costs from four to nine cents per day for the
government to feed a man, there is no sense on earth why it should
cost all the rest of us the biggest part of our pay checks, and it oc
curs to us that it would be a good scheme for this to be investigated
and the government's plan be made public in order that the rest of
us may take advantage of it. If it is necessary for a lot of us to band
together in a community of interests to bring this about, why, all
rigni, let s uo it., if Undo Sam refuses to be bled by the food trusts
wny snouid otner people?.
WHAT IS THE REMEDY?
Go into a drug store' in this city, ask for a certain prescription
to be filled. If the druggist makes a mistake and gives you some-
thing that causes you sickness or death, that druggist is liable lor
Ihe damages he is liable civally and criminally.
Go the city and ask for water to be delivered to you for a year,
and if the city or water board gives you something with that water
that causes you sickness or death, isn't the city as liable for the re
sults as is the druggist ,
Sentiment to undo the mistakes of the past in tho way ot a pure
water supply for this city is crystalizing, and out of it is going to
come some relief. ': Men are beginnig to look this matter in the face
and demand that it be remedied.
of what the teamster was throwing away.' I If the people of this' city take hold of this matter and provide
The proper Ming is to ascenaun ir you can, wnicn way me twig - pure water, there is little liability of damage suits, ir tney do not,
is inclined und train it accordingly. If a boy wants to bo a mining
engineer there is no uso cramming him with astromony. ihe
cronological cycles are of no account to the boy who wants to be
a llsh warden. There is too much cramming with sluh that one nev
er uses to much waste education. Educate along the lines of re
quirements and cut out the Groek
Hero are four bunches of trouble that Woodrow Wilson will have
o stack up against about as soon as he gets squarod away in the white
ouso chair, und if he gets away with them with satisfaction to the
merican people, I will think he is some president:
Tho Mexican situation will be about the first one ho will fall hoir
to. President Taft has been saving this for Woodrow, and has been
keeping it warm all this while. Tho administration has been insisting
that Americans and American interests bo protected by tho Mexican
government., while any school' kid knows that tho Mexican government
cannot protect anything. And Mr. Wilson must handle this delicate
one.
Another one he will have to scratch his head about, and which
has been saved for him is that Hussian treaty. This country insits on
a treaty that Russia will not grant, and Mr. Wilson is supposed to be
able to hypnotize them into taking something they do not want.
Then will come the Panama canal trouble with Great Britain and
adjusting this so that, wo peoplo who built the big ditch can run it to
suit themselves, and at the same tune so run it that John Bull will be
happy and crack an English joke, And if Mr. Wilson can do1 that he
will sure be .some president.
And then comes tariff lcgislatiomyind currency reform, and the
administration that can handle these disturbers with bare hands and
do a satisfactory job, will sure go down in history as some noise.
The incoming congross has certainly got some nice ones to go
right or wrung on.
I nolo that the postmaster general is advocating that tho gov
ernment now tako over the expdess business of the country. The ex
press companies are beginning to see that tho parcels post is going
to put the cleaner on them, and I hey want to get in, and of course
this handy postmaster general will plug for them as ho always has.
My view is that ultimately the government should lake
ovor the entire business of the express companies, and tho
express companies should receive a fair price for their bus
iness and equipment, and their entire plants should bo trans
ferred to I ho government control.
That's t he way I ho head of tho mail servico puts it up. Ho is so
considerate of those express companies that aro now up against what
they have been giving Ihe people for these many years. If those
companies hud not levied such high Iributo on American business
here would not have been any parcels post. These companies sim
ply plundered Ihe people until they would not longor stand for it. and
the parcels post was the result. And now when wo havo good hot
competition pushed up to these fellows, and have them whoro they
won't declare any more 800 per cent dividends in a hurry, then tho P.
M. G. would step in and ask the government to buy them out, ask
Ibis country to pay millions for something it has no earthly use for.
Might just as well have asked the government to havo bought
out all the banks of this country when it established the postal bank
ing system, because it would compete with the banks.
lllC I'Mlt'l'SH Cllinnn Ilii.U linvil Im.l II. io n.n.nl..., I... V,n nnilr f,M
i no past fitly years, now let them go up against a littlo competition,
n they can drive the government out of tho carrying business (as
l ey have threatened) (hon let them hop to it, and if they can't,
uif , ils "' misin'ss- Hut buying out tho express companies
Jhn i,e , iv" V l.1H0 for thorn that Is tho rankest nonsense' and
"10 t"g''Ht "K 1'UM.iess play that was ever attempted.
it is a dead certainty actions will be filed. And if one case sticks,
there will be many that will stick, and it will be mighty expensive for
the city, both financially and in the way of advertising that hurts.
If we can get the Bull. Run water, and get enough of it and for a
long time to come, then that is probably the best solution of the mat
ter, but the writer is told by Portland people that this will be impos
sible, for in the sprinklii$ months of the summer Portland now has
to limit the use for want of water, and that as the city grows it will
In later years noed every quart of the Bull Run supply.
Tho state proposition, to supply water to the whole Willam
ette valley from Clear Lake in the Cascades, is one that is far in the
future and not to bo depended on for early relief. This paper is in
formed that the railroads have this lake tied up on an option for two
years to come, and even if this could be overcome and the stale leg
islature should grant tho .big appropriation,, it would be four or five
years before the big project could be put through. And this city
cannot wait this long. , . - .
It would seem that the most practical plan and the one that
would build solidly for tho future, would bo to go back into tho foot
hills, group a bunch of springs, build a reservoir, and put in a grav
ity system then we would have something.
Such a water system would come high, but we would havo some
thing,. and in the years to come it would be a good financial invest
ment. Once installed, it does not cost much to have water run down
hill. It does away with pumping plants, big salaries and a lot of
municipal business. And it is the best dividend-paying scheme that
any city ever undertook for people will come where absolute pure
water is guaranteed if that locality has what Clackamas county
has to back the water.,
-' But certainly we cannot afford to let this matter go to sleep
after what has occured. It has been mighty expensive to tho city
and we must remedy it. That something will come out of the mat
ter thoro is littlo doubt hie question is how best and what is best.
It's easy to plod aloug to spend as you
go without a thought of the future but
it means everlasting plodding. The
Savings Department of this institution
pays 3 per cent interest compounded
semi-annually on savings deposits. By
systematic saving you will gradually
eliminate the wasteful, careless habits
that keep so many men down. A dol
lar starts an cccount with us. Are you
the man to do it?
THE BANK Of OREGON CUT
Oldest Bank in Clackomas County
Let Us Wage a
Relentless
War
Against
Consumption
By HENRY T. HUNT, Mayor
of Cincinnati
ft,
f if ' ' $
LQOKNG
JIT
CLACKAMAS
U8 WAGE A RELENTLESS WAR AGAIN ST CONSUMPTION.
THE DI8EASS 16 A MENACE THAT THREATENS TO FILL
OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS WITH WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
Tubofculosis annually reaps a toll of nearly one thousand
lives in Cincinnati alone. Thousands of others aro victims of the dread
diacaso, and many of them will shortly bo added to the death list.
In tho United Statos, statistics show, the annual deaths from con
sumption number two hundred thousand. There are said to be at
loast ONE MILLION : PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM THK
DISEASE. The economio loss ia estimated at more than five hundred
million dollars a year in loss of life and labor to the country.
It devastates whole families. Public institutions which have le
oome filled with widows and orphans would not bo necessary were the
propor preventive means taken against the dreaded white plague. It
will thoreforo be seen that the people of the United States have an
important task before them. EVERY MEANS IN OUR TOWER
SHOULD BE UTILIZED LN' ERADICATING THIS DREAD
DISEASE., .
Bad living and working conditions, especially impure air, dark
noss, dirt and dust, are among the principal causes of the disease. To
wago a relentless war upon the disease and upon tho conditions making
for tho disease is one of the moat important functions our people have
before them today.
RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF A
FORMER RESIDENT.
As He Sees the Changes that the
Years Have Brought.
Stafford. Ore.. Dec. 31. 1912
Ye Editor of the Oregon City
uourier:
It has now been more than a
decade since the Courier first
pressed me into service as ono of
its many writers; for sixteen
years "Lengthy"' was a visitor to
your friends and chronicled the
births, marriages and other
events that come and go and make
this life the routine it should be,
and is willed to be.
From the Happy New Year- to
the one next Dreceedinir it. neigh
bors and friends at the close of
the week heard from 'Lengthy,"
and got as we now do with the
comic sections of our dailies
first, looked on with suronse.
then tolerated, and lastly, but not
in ine leasi, expecteu.
As history is said to repeat it
self, the past has been hinged
wnn me present, and like the
nimrod of the Ozark Mountains
who was led astray by the sound
of ma sive tenpins and shortly
ien asleep in tne mountains to
awaken twenty years later, with
the place, people and conditions
changed to such an extent that
he was known of as one in a leg
end; so returneth one of the past
correspondents of your esteemed
paper, from a seeming slumber,
vhegun in the latter part of the
Nineteentn century, to the home
of his youth, and now takes the
liberty, while spending a few days
in company with the people and
places well known of yore, to re
new acquaintances and mention
a Jew ol the changes. The people
have changed, the farms have
changed, tho buildings, the for
ests, the roads and the ways have
in many instances changed, Un
til 1, in a retrospective, mood.
pause, contemplate, and with ba
ted breath think, ere I mention
many things that crowd upon me.
The major Dart of the livins:
here now are to me strangers,
having come to the community
since my departure; the old and
familiar faces consist principally
of the older heads of the Bakers,
Elligsons, Delkers, Sharps, Pet
ers, uage, bchatz, Oldenstadts,
and Mosers. Stopping at the
school house which still "sits by
tne roaa tnouen mucn cnanged
and enlarged, 1 see the greatest
change there, as I scan the faces
of the now large school, not a face
is one 01 tne past tne only ta
miliar .thing about the place be-
ng the sound ol tho good old hell.
The postoffice is no more: the
postman makes his rounds and no
one need go to the corner post
office to gather the news. Tele-
nnones are now installed in most
of the residences, and quick com
munication is now had without
tho necessity of wrapping1 udi
tramping out and getting wet, but
tne good old time cnats are not
thus carried on.
Turning to he City of the Dead,
there with many thoughts that
I must nave neen in many in
stances occupied by those that
should be in other places and
under different conditions, I find
there has been from nearly every
family and hearth, some one led
to that "long home from which no
traveller e'er returns." someone 1
wished to see, to talk to; for the
first time they have laued to re
spond when I mentioned their
name at tneir door, so 1 nave to
say "Gone."
Rambling about tho woods, the
fields, and about the old time
anes, 1 lind myself oil tne ngnt
track. A house may be built in
the place where the road used to
be, the fences, formerly of split
rails, are in som instances still
i nulace, but badly decayed. Board
lences tnat were, now are topp
ling, wire leuces are leuiauiuK
them 111 many places, melds are
farmed dillerently than ol yore.
Still with all these changes
there is no place like home. Home
it was and home it always will re
main.
With all these changes, and tho
change I havo made, I can feel
with the writer of yore, who said:
An exile from Home, splendor
dazzles in vain, on give me my
ow v thatched cottaare atrain.
J o those who are still living m
Stafford that have made the place
their home for a decade, I will say
you are a happy, healthy lot; to
those who like myseii, nave wan
dered away, to you I will say, re
trace your steps, and see what a
thriving progressive community
the place now is. The Mansard
roof, otherwise known and spoken
of as a mortgage, like many oth
er roofs, has been swept out by
the decay ol progression. Koaiis
that they now call very poor are
better than the best were a short
time past. Knockers are un
known, and "Boos" is written on
all the undertakings. A neigh
borly feeling prevails and each
seems to think "there is so much
bad in the best of us; so much
good in the worst of us, it hardly
behooves any of us to speak ill of
the rest of us."
"Lengthy
Children Cry for Fletcher's
m
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature ol
a - and has been made under his per-
Ir sfrf-t-if1- eonal supervision since its Infancy.
-iaeZ7u2cJU Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " ore but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the hcaltn 01
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
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contains neither Opium,- Morphine nor other Narcotio
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and allays Feverlshness. For more than thirty years it
has been in constant use for tho relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, AVlnd Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Dowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
y7
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use Fop Over 30 Years
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HOW TO RESIST
Chronic Coughs and Colds.
Strong, vigorous men and women
hardly ever catch cold; It's only when
the system is run down and vitality
low that colds and coughs get a foot
hold. Now Isn't it reasonable that the
right way to cure a cough ia to build
up your strength again?
Mrs. Olivia Parham, of East Dur
ham, N. C, Bays: "I took Vlnol for a
chronic cough which had lasted two
years, and the cough not only disap
peared, but It built up my strength
as well."
The reason Vlnol is so efficacious in
such cases Is because it contains In a
delicious concentrated form all the
medicinal curative elements of cod
liver oil, with tonlo, blood-build tne
Iron added.
Chronic coughs and colds yield to
Vlnol because It builds up the weak
ened, run-down system.
Tou can get your money back any
time if Vlnol does not do all we say.
Huntley Bros. Co., Druggists
Oregon City Oregon.
Methodist Minister Recommends
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Rev. James A. Lewis, Milaca,
Minn., writes: "Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy has been a needed
and welcome guest in our home
for a number of years. I highly
recommend it to my follows as
being a medicine worthy of trial
in cases of colds, coughs and
croup." Give Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy a trial and wo arc
confident you will find it very ef
fectual and continuo to use it as
occasion requires for years to
come, as many others have done.
ror saye by Huntley Bros. (Jo.
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"Why did Hhe dlvune bi'r.Brst him
tin ml?"
"He couldn't fci't'l' Mix mum-y."
"And why is xhe siiIiik her present
btixlinml fur divorce?"
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Pout.
Two Good Ideas,
Scott It's a ifoixl Irtdi when nnp:ry to
count ten before yun spenk. Mott
Tine: iilso when "touched" to count s
tlmiiKiitid before yon lend Boston
TriiiiNcript.
Dixionient Is the w:mt of xelf rsll
auce It Is tnttrmll.v of will - Kniersou.
Don't You Believe It.'
Some say that chronic consti
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iyme5$,N f..o aontw aontw aon
believe it. Chamberlain's Tab
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Final Notice of Administrator.
To Whom it May Concern: No
tice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, C V. Beckett, adminis
trator of the estate of John
R. Skervin, deceased, has this
day li ltil his linal account
in said estate and the
Honorable County Court of
Clackamas county, Oregon has
lixod and appointed Monday, Feb
ruary 3, 1913, at the hour of 10
a. m. of said day at the County
court house in Clackamas county,
Oregon as the time and place of
hearing any objections to such
liral account, and for the settle
ment thereof.
Dated December 30,1912.
C. W. JJHuKETT,
Administrator of the Estate
John 11. Skirvin, deceased
Carey !'. Martin, Attorney
Estate.
of
for
Notico to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed
executrix of the estate of L.Pierco
llliams, deceased, by the Hon.
County Court of Clackamas coun
ty, Orgeon 1 All persons having
claims against the said estate are
hereby notilied and required to
present the same to me for pay
ment at my residence at Oregon
City, Oregon, with proper vouch
ers and duly verified within six
months from the date hereof.
Dated December 31st, 1912.
Evelyn Scott Williams,
Executrix of the Estate of L.Pierce
.Williams, deceased.
Gordeii E. Hayes, Attorney ifor
Executrix.
MAS AND THE SOIL..-;
Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo, author of the Common Sense
Medioal Adviser, says " why does not the farmer treat his own
body as he treats the land he cultivates, lie puts back in phos
phate what he takes out in crops, or the land would grow poor.
The farmer should put back into his body the vital elements
exhausted by labor, or by ill-health induced by some chronio
disease." Further, he says, " the great value of my Doctor .
1 lerce s Golden Medical Discovery is in its vitalizing power. It gives strength
to the stomach and purity to the blood. It is like the phosphates which supply
nature with the substances that build up the crops. The far-reaching action oi
Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
Is due to its effect on the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition. Dis
eases that begin in the stomach are cured through the stomach. A bilious spell
is simply the result of an effort made by the liver to catch up when over-worked
and exhausted, I have lound the ' Discovery ' to be unsurpassed as liver reg
ulator and rich blood-maker."
Miss Lottie Kxirklt of Perth, Kansas, says: "I will hero ndd my testimony
of the effectiveness of your remedy upon myself. I was troubled with indigestion
for two years or more. Doctored with three diirerent doctors besides taking numer
ous kinds of so-called ' stomach cures ' but received no permanent relief, f was run
down, could not sleep at night with tho judn In my chest, caused by gas on tho stom
ach. Was weak, could eat scarcely anything nl though I was hungry nearly all the
time. About one year and a half ago I began taking vour ' Oolden Medical Discov
ery,' and after having taken several bottles am nearly cured of stomach trouble.
Can now eat without distress and have gnined fifteen pounds in weight.
I thank you lor your remedy and wish yt.u all success in your good work."
1 17 SUNSET
I IogdensshastaI I
In this, our first message of the New Year, we wish to
express our appreciation to the public, for their patronage
during the past year, and of what we value even more, their
confidence and cordial good will.. We realize that the pub
lic's interests and our interests are mutual and that what
ever helps one helps the other.
In extending our thanks to the public for their patron
age during the past year we pledge ourselves that during the
. coming year we will use our most earnest efforts to merit
the continuation of the pleasant relations which have exist,
ed in the past.
Accept our sincere wishes that the New Year may bring
you happiness and prosperity.
Southern Pacific Company